Is it ‘Illogical’ to Fight Abortion by Defunding Planned Parenthood?

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Is it logical to fight abortion (and killing babies) by de-funding Planned Parenthood?

Of course it is. God will hold us accountable for defending life. It is both logical and correct in the eyes of God. Jesus came that we might have life. That is clear. The evil one came to kill, steal and destroy. I will side with God.

In God’s Country (aka the Kingdom of God), Jesus is in control. As a citizen of God’s County, I must side for life.

“But that’s not the point. And the point is this: pro-life Americans don’t want to fund an organization – in any way, in any from – that violently tramples on the life and dignity of the unborn human person. Never mind the argument that money is fungible, or that Planned Parenthood could offset costs with public funds to free up other resources for abortion. (Another point highlighted by pro-life groups.)

And, despite offers from President Trump, Planned Parenthood has, time and time again, refused to separate abortion from its other services.”

Source: WashPost: ‘Illogical’ to Fight Abortion by Defunding Planned Parenthood

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These Graphic Pictures Show What Planned Parenthood Is Fighting For

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With the pro-life movement fighting to strip federal tax dollars from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, and Planned Parenthood and its allies fighting just as hard to hold onto that funding, the abortion issue has remained in the headlines.

But too often forgotten in such battles are those most affected by it: the unborn children whose lives abortion takes 2,537 times a day—35 percent of them by Planned Parenthood alone. Or about 60 million since Roe v. Wade.

Source: These Graphic Pictures Show What Planned Parenthood Is Fighting For

Planned Parenthood Executive Urges Pro-Choicers to Concede ‘It’s killing’

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The Center for Medical Progress continues to release footage of abortion doctors candidly discussing gruesome late-term terminations and organ harvesting.

Dr. Lisa Harris, medical director of Planned Parenthood of Michigan, delivered a convention talk about the hidden side of the abortion industry.

“Our stories don’t really have a place in a lot of pro-choice discourse and rhetoric, right? The heads that get stuck that we can’t get out,” she said as the audience laughed. “Those are all parts of our experience. But, there’s no real good place for us to share those.”

Harris said that the pro-choice community should concede certain rhetorical points to the pro-life community, adding that abortion is an inherently violent act and a form of “killing.” She said that abortion doctors “see the fetus the same way” that pro-life activists do, but that should not stop pro-choice advocates from defending their position.

“Given that we might actually both agree that there’s violence in here, ask me why I come to work everyday,” she said. “Let’s just give them all the violence, it’s a person, it’s killing, let’s just give them all that.”

Pro-Lifers on Congress’ Planned Parenthood Funding: ‘Incredibly Disappointing,’ ‘Beyond Frustrating,’ ‘Need to Defund’

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I thought President Trump and so many in Congress have been clear about de-funding the abortionist baby killer, Planned Parenthood.

What is going on here? Who can we trust?

We can trust God and Jesus.

Some pro-life advocates said they were disappointed with the short-term spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Doanld Trump on Friday, which continues funding for Planned Parenthood. They also expressed frustration with the pending $1 trillion spending package expected to pass this week and keep the government funded through fiscal year 2017 and which also would maintain funding for the abortion provider.

Source: Pro-Lifers on Congress’ Planned Parenthood Funding: ‘Incredibly Disappointing,’ ‘Beyond Frustrating,’ ‘Need to Defund’

Actor James Woods Slams Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz: It’s “Not So Safe For Future Generations”

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Known for his roles in “Casino” and “Once Upon A Time in America” and voices in “Family Guy” and Disney’s “Hercules,” Woods criticized Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices Monday on social media.

Woods posted a Planned Parenthood promotional image that claimed the abortion chain is a “safe space” for all people.

“Maybe not so safe for the future generation …” Woods wrote on Twitter above the image.

Christian University Cuts Ties With Planned Parenthood After Pro-Life Students Protest

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In a huge win for the Students for Life group at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, the Christian school has officially cut ties with the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. Better to follow Jesus than not.

In an email to the campus, Whitworth University president Beck Taylor wrote: ­­­­­“I recently instructed the Dornsife Center for Community Engagement not to renew that relationship. This is the only formal partnership the university currently has with Planned Parenthood. At the end of the current academic year, Whitworth will no longer offer credit-bearing service-learning placements or internships with the organization.”

98 percent of women of reproductive age will never step foot inside a Planned Parenthood in any given year for health care.

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Do we need to fund Planned Parenthood?

Most of what they provide is not about health care. It is about murdering babies.

Kristan Hawkins has compiled some great data for us to consider.

According to their own annual report, Planned Parenthood saw 2.5 million clients in 2015, which is down from 3.1 million in 2006. While that number may seem high, it means that 98 percent of women of reproductive age will never step foot inside a Planned Parenthood in any given year for health care.

Planned Parenthood loves to talk about the services they provide — other than abortion — but it takes little effort to uncover the fact that while government funding to them has increased by millions, their preventative services have dropped off a cliff.

An investigation released this week into Planned Parenthood’s health care services showed that while they tout their prenatal services, in reality, these services hardly even exist.

According to their own annual reports, prenatal services at Planned Parenthood have been cut in half since 2009 and cancer screenings have been slashed since 2006. From 2009 to 2013, Planned Parenthood’s adoption-to-abortion ratio is 209-to-1.  

Yet, in 2006, they committed one of every five abortions; in 2015, it’s up to one in every three abortions.

What are taxpayers getting for spending more money at Planned Parenthood? Fewer actual health care services and more abortions. This is a disgrace.

The money that currently goes to Planned Parenthood should be redirected to Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers (FHQCs), of which outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities 20-to-1. These centers are all over the country, in rural and urban areas, and serve all people.

Source: We don’t need to spend our tax dollars on Planned Parenthood | Fox News

Lena Dunham’s Video Reveals The Ugly Truth About The Women’s March

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The Women’s March this Saturday is apparently not a march for women. It is strictly a march for abortion rights.

A pro-life group, New Wave Feminists, opposes President-elect Donald Trump and was listed as an official sponsor of the event. But after an article written by Emma Green, one of the march’s co-chairs, was published in The Atlantic, sharing pro-life women’s involvement, stating “We must not just talk about feminism as one issue, like access to reproductive care,” a tweet storm ensued and they were abruptly kicked out.

The reason for kicking these women out? “The right to choose is a fundamental part of feminism.”

Talk about fake news. This clearly fits the definition.

Planned Parenthood fangirls like Lena and her friends should know that most of the country disagrees with them. In fact, 80 percent of Americans think abortion should be restricted to the first trimester, and most women support the Hyde Amendment — a federal law that restricts taxpayer dollars from funding abortions. Planned Parenthood’s message — if you have a uterus then you should love abortion because every woman does — is totally false. Pushing that line of rhetoric on the Women’s March distorts reality and excludes not women’s voices, but the majority of women’s voices.

In truth, most women believe there should be restrictions on abortion, and a much larger proportion of Americans (49 percent) think abortion is morally wrong than those who think it is morally acceptable (15 percent).

Source: Lena Dunham’s Video Reveals The Ugly Truth About The Women’s March

Dear liberals: Planned Parenthood is the leading killer of unarmed black lives

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Representative Gwen Moore wants to pretend that institutionalized racism isn’t inherent in a billion-dollar abortion empire that regularly celebrates its eugenicist founder.

Why Planned Parenthood’s Video Expose Changed Nothing

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It is all about the moral and cultural issues facing us. Framing everything as a “legal” issue is not very helpful. It is wrong to kill babies. That speaks to our moral character.

Life is sacred and important. That needs to be the reference point in our culture.

Seen in that light, abortion critics erred by promoting the relatively weak argument that the videos show Planned Parenthood officials engaged in illegal organ harvesting, rather than unseemly conversation and immoral actions, legal or not. Once defenders of the group decided the claim of illegal activity wasn’t true, they tuned out, dismissing the controversy as a frame job.

Critics of abortion rights might have influenced more people who didn’t agree with them by dialing back moral instruction (“You are flawed if you don’t react as I do to this”) in favor of a request to have their values acknowledged (“Please consider my profound moral objections to the practices depicted here”).

Source: Why Planned Parenthood’s Video Expose Changed Nothing

Indicting the journalistic investigator of Planned Parenthood but not the baby killer! Really?

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Babies

Shocking and completely expected. Source: The Federalist

Of course, no bias here. Lauren Reeder, a Harris County prosecutor, has been a board member for Planned Parenthood since 2013 and a fundraiser since 2009.

I’m curious about what has happened to “Freedom of Speech”? Will the journalistic community rally to Daleiden’s support?

We must stand for life. We must stand for Freedom of Speech. We must stand whether we agree or not. 

Hillary calls for more taxpayer funding of abortions and elimination of the Hyde Amendment

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Hillary Clinton

This is a stunning upping of the ante. Rather than attempt to preserve the current level of funding, let’s give them more. Let’s remove all restrictions.

At a Planned Parenthood endorsement rally for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee called for an end to the 40-year-old ban on taxpayer funds for abortion. The so-called Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, is the long-standing compromise between pro-life and pro-choice lawmakers that restricts federally funded abortion cases only to those of rape, incest and life of the mother.

Over time, this has grown to include government health programs like Medicaid and Obamacare. At the rally, Clinton said she believes Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, should be “fully funded” citing that the measure discriminates against low-income women. The group took in over $500 million from taxpayers in 2014 for non-abortion activities.

The On-Again, Off-Again Arguments about ‘Dangerous Rhetoric’ Leading to Violence – Jim Geraghty

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God loves babies

This from Jim Geraghty at the National Review. Well said!

Let me get this straight. In the eyes of the Left . . .

. . . criticism of Planned Parenthood means something like the shooting in Colorado “was bound to happen“ . . .

. . . but chants where people describe police as “pigs” and call for them to be “fried like bacon” don’t lead to attacks on police . . .

. . . when an event by Pamela Geller is targeted by an Islamist shooter, it is “not really about free speech; it [is] an exercise in bigotry and hatred” and the attempt to kill her means she has “achieved her provocative goal” . . .

. . . while at the same time, investigators contend we may never know what motivated a 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez to kill four Marines and a sailor in an attack on Chattanooga’s U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center last July . .

. . . a shooting by a diagnosed schizophrenic, who believed that grammar was part of a vast, government-directed mind control effort, is characterized by the Southern Poverty law Center as having views that are the “hallmark of the far right and the militia movement” . . .

. . . while the shooter who opened fire in the lobby of the Family Research Council in downtown Washington in 2012, who planned to target the Traditional Values Coalition next, does not spur any need for a broader discussion or societal lessons about the demonization of political opponents . . .

. . . a California killer, who was treated by multiple therapists and already had police checking on him after posting disturbing YouTube videos, is a reflection of “sexist society” . . .

. . . but there’s little reason to ask whether the Oregon shooter’s decision to target Christians reflects a broader, societal hostility to Christians, or whether it reflects his personal allegiance to demons . . .

. . . when white supremacist Dylann Roof commits an act of mass murder in an African-American church, Salon declares, “White America is complicit” and the Washington Post runs a column declaring, “99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is responsible for the one who does” . . .

. . . but the Roanoke shooter’s endless sense of grievance and perceptions of racism and homophobia in all of his coworkers represents him and him alone . . .

Do I have all that right? And does that make sense to anyone?

Wouldn’t Occam’s Razor suggest that those already driven by a desire or compulsion to kill other people are going to do so, and will merely latch on to whatever “reason,” justification, or excuse is at hand or is most convenient? Isn’t it ridiculous to expect sane people to watch what they say and restrict what thoughts they express in order to prevent a rampage by someone with an inherently illogical, literally unreasonable, not-sane thinking process?

Isn’t “don’t say what you think, because it might set off a crazy person” the most insidious form of censorship, because none of us can really know what prompts a crazy person to go on a violent rampage?

Why can’t Mitch McConnell get a bill defunding Planned Parenthood to the President’s desk?

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Mitch McConnell – Senate Leader

What will Mitch McConnell do about the Planned Parenthood funding issue? He has a real problem in that, according to Senate rules, he can’t get 60 votes on the issue to send it to the President’s desk. Even if he could, the President would veto it and there would not be 67 Senate votes to override it.

Now that is a tough position to be in. As Carly Fiorina suggested, we should at least find a way to force President Obama to veto it.

One option, which I actually favor, is to do away with Senate rule 22 which requires 60 votes. I favor it regardless of which party has a majority in the Senate.

“Isn’t it obvious? For the media to play up this shutdown fight, as is their nature, they first have to explain what the controversy is all about. And that is the last thing they want to do. An explanation means giving pro-lifers a huge platform to message on Planned Parenthood.

“Republicans consider shutting down government for some reason we have no idea why, maybe see paragraph 12 for a possible explanation” is the tone that most coverage of this issue has had thus far. In an actual shutdown scenario, that would have to change. Heaven forbid that Pope Francis mention it in a sentence that also talks about gays.

“This is an opportunity that Republican leadership could seize if they wanted to. The likeliest scenario here is no shutdown – a situation where Ted Cruz makes noise, but pro-life groups and leaders give cover, the base is disgusted, and Trump nukes some dumb Senator over it. But that scenario will be more palatable for pro-lifers if they have the opportunity to have their day in the sun. If Republicans put a continuing resolution that defunds Planned Parenthood on the floor for three weeks, forcing the Democrats to rail in opposition and for the media to cover this topic day after day, it would be a far better approach than doing nothing, saying nothing, then cutting a deal at the end of the month, where Mitch McConnell comes out to the microphones and says with a smile that the Senate is open for business.”

Source: Mitch McConnell And The Planned Parenthood Atom Bomb

Carly Fiorina joins the “main stage” and scores a coup immediately

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I continue to be impressed by Carly Fiorina. Poised, articulate, visionary but detailed about her proposals. We will see if she gets a lift from the debate.

There is only one headline, and that is the political arrival of Carly Fiorina. She gave the best answer on Planned Parenthood. She gave the best answer on Donald Trump’s insults. She gave the best answer on the ten dollar bill. She gave solid answers on her business record and drug policy. In what was essentially her prime time introduction to a Republican electorate that was only just becoming aware of her existence after the first round of debates, she proved to be the quickest and most capable debater on the stage.

Note: You will see many reporters today saying that Fiorina’s description of what happened in the Planned Parenthood videos is made up or exaggerated. I don’t understand that at all – did they miss this one? Oh, right, they missed all of them.

Source: Carly Fiorina Joins The Fray

 

Do we see clearly what life means to Planned Parenthood?

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Is this really about choice? Is really what I get to do with “my body”?

The “my body, my choice” argument is also the foundation of the well known, and damaging, violinist analogy: if you wake up one day with the world’s best violinist attached to you for a lifesaving treatment only you can provide, do you have the right to unplug him, and thereby kill him? Pro-choicers say yes, and pro-lifers are caught in a seemingly indefensible position. After all, even we grant that the violinist has the right to life, which he would, how can we deny that we would have the right to unplug him if we don’t consent to treating him? We control our body, and the decisions we make regarding it should be free for us to make. If we don’t want to save the violinist, we shouldn’t have to. Should we? Who’s making us? Who can make us?

Life – Let’s celebrate it

We are able to see the horrible nature of abortion and the callous and depraved attitude of the abortion providers at Planned Parenthood.

Nine atrocious Planned Parenthood videos released by the Center for Medical Progress are revitalizing the pro-life movement. While the long-standing goal of completely defunding Planned Parenthood, which currently receives $528 million of taxpayer funds, has achieved some success in recent years, CMP’s shocking videos might finally tip the scale for good. Furthermore, the videos have also shined a glaring light on the darkest sides of the abortion industry. The latest video, which was released Tuesday, filmed a conversation with StemExpress CEO, Cate Dyer, who suggested that Planned Parenthood clinics suffer from “rampant” disease and bacteria contamination.

Source: Shifting the Pro-Life Paradigm – The Federalist

How many mammography facilities does Planned Parenthood run?

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in order to defend its reputation, Planned Parenthood points to other medical procedures performed by the group that don’t result in body counts. One of its top rhetorical gimmicks is to reference all the mammograms that women can receive by visiting Planned Parenthood:

Planned Parenthood helps women nationwide get access to mammograms, as part of the range of health care Planned Parenthood health centers provide to nearly three million people a year.

There’s only one problem: Planned Parenthood does not manage a single licensed mammography facility in the U.S. Not one. Of the 8,735 licensed mammography facilities in America, Planned Parenthood operates exactly zero.

Source: Planned Parenthood Runs Zero Licensed Mammogram Clinics

 

Questions Every Planned Parenthood Supporter Should Answer

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Pregnant

This is a good list of questions that everyone should honestly answer. Many days it is about the questions.

What are your answers?

If a baby is outside the womb, with lungs, a beating heart, and a functioning brain, is it alive? And if it is, is killing that baby morally wrong?

If not, do you support the unlimited right of women to dismember viable fetuses whenever they want for whatever reason they like? If so, what is the limit? Before 20 weeks? Before 30 weeks? A week before the delivery date? Before the umbilical cord is removed? When does the child deserve protection?

Do you believe it’s moral for a Planned Parenthood technician to cut through the face of a healthy fetus in order to harvest his organs? If so, do you believe taxpayers should be funding this practice?

What is the moral difference between killing a viable fetus and a five-day old child?

Do you believe that people who think it’s “kinda cool” to stop and start the heart of an ex-utero human should be investigated for potential criminality?

If there is no ethical problem with vivisecting a fetus in the cause of science, what would you say if your son or daughter wanted to become an abortionist?

How does the idea of “women’s health” comport with cutting open a healthy fetus just so you can harvest and sell her organs?

What’s more offensive to you: the term “anchor babies,” or hearing Planned Parenthood’s senior director for medical services talk about dismembered babies as though they were a la carte menu items?

via Questions Every Planned Parenthood Supporter Should Answer.

Planned Parenthood’s Big Lie

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Defund Planned Parenthood

If you are going to lie, there is a school of thought it ought to be a big one. Here are some things to think about.

1. Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! ~King David Psalm 139:13-16
2. Look at a sonogram. What you see is life and you know it. That is the truth and rejecting leads to devastating consequences.
3. Do we really need “fetal body parts” for research? This series of videos about Planned Parenthood is so disturbing.
4. I believe in the sanctity of life. My son is 26 now. When I saw him during the first ultra-sound, 27 years ago, this issue became real for me.
5. God’s goal for us is to respect life and prohibits us from murder.
6. Body parts are not needed for research.
7. Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we’ll surely love the child who was conceived. ~Apostle John 1 John 5:1-3The Message (MSG)

Hitler pioneered the concept of the Big Lie, but Planned Parenthood may well have perfected it. The Big Lie is quite different from a small lie. Hitler accurately noted the aspects of human nature that lead groups and individuals to believe lies on massive scales, even after the truth of the matter has been exposed:

… in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

Does this remind you of Planned Parenthood? It should. The truth is that unborn children don’t deserve abortion, but to Planned Parenthood, fetuses are no more than “products of conception,” abortion is just “three percent” of their otherwise “necessary” health care services, and defunding them would lead to more abortions. None of this is true. The Big Lie of Planned Parenthood isn’t just Big — it’s the mother of them all.

via Planned Parenthood’s Big Lie.

Planned Parenthood And The Left’s War On Truth

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God loves babies

Maybe what Planned Parenthood is doing is legal. I somehow doubt it. Regardless, it morally reprehensible and just plain wrong.

Here are some key ideas:

1. Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! ~King David Psalm 139:13-16
2. Look at a sonogram. What you see is life and you know it. That is the truth and rejecting leads to devastating consequences.
3. Do we really need “fetal body parts” for research? This series of videos about Planned Parenthood is so disturbing.
4. I believe in the sanctity of life. My son is 26 now. When I saw him during the first ultra-sound, 27 years ago, this issue became real for me.
5. God’s goal for us is to respect life and prohibits us from murder.
6. Body parts are not needed for research.
7. Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we’ll surely love the child who was conceived. ~Apostle John 1 John 5:1-3The Message (MSG)
8. The Planned Parenthood Abortion-Funding Fallacy There is the letter of the law and there is reality. In reality, Planned Parenthood is spending tax payer money on abortions. In reality, they can’t really prove they don’t. Everyone, including Planned Parenthood, ought to acknowledge the truth of this reality.

It’s not that we live in a world of naivety, where no one could conceive of these practices — even the dissection and parceling out of organs from “intact fetal cadavers,“ revealed in the most recent video. Rather, it’s just that whether it’s actually legal or they’re operating in gray areas, it’s unacceptable that these grotesque endeavors are even taking place. What’s worse is that Planned Parenthood and its apologists are relentlessly trying to hide behind the legal technicalities and the fact that the videos were edited (although, for the record, they have consistently been released in full).

via Planned Parenthood And The Left’s War On Truth – The Federalist.

The Planned Parenthood Abortion-Funding Fallacy

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Wisdom

There is the letter of the law and there is reality. In reality, Planned Parenthood is spending tax payer money on abortions. In reality, they can’t really prove they don’t.

Everyone, including Planned Parenthood, ought to acknowledge the truth of this reality.

Planned Parenthood’s defenders respond by pointing out that Congress already prohibits federal funding for abortions, so defunding the organization would not accomplish pro-lifers’ central goal of curtailing its abortion program. They are correct on the letter of the law but wrong about its effectiveness. A ban on federal funding for abortions still leaves room for taxpayer support of abortion.

The reason for this is a concept economists call “crowd-out:” when the federal government increases funding for a certain activity, the private sector will spend less on that activity and more on other things. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, provides an example. Recipients must spend food stamps on food, hence the name. But a study by Columbia University professor Neeraj Kaushal and Fordham University professor Qin Gao published by NBER suggests that increasing food stamp generosity does not significantly increase household expenditures on food. Why?

Imagine a person who initially spends $50 on food out of his own pocket, but then receives another $50 in food stamps. He could spend the full $100 on food, but he might take advantage of his slightly richer situation to spend some of the first $50 on other things. If he ends up spending $70 on food and $30 on other goods, the provision of food stamps will have “crowded-out” $30 of private spending on food. Here we see the unintended consequences of government spending: the food stamp program has essentially paid for things which might be completely unrelated to food.

via The Planned Parenthood Abortion-Funding Fallacy | Economics21.

Do we really need “fetal body parts” for research?

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New Life

This series of videos about Planned Parenthood is so disturbing. I believe in the sanctity of life. My son is 26 now. When I saw him during the first ultra-sound, 27 years ago, this issue became real for me. God’s goal for us is to respect life and prohibits us from murder.

Body parts are not needed for research.

“Planned Parenthood’s consent form never mentions organ donation. It is woefully inadequate in providing appropriate context and understanding to patients so they can provide genuinely informed consent. The form does not ensure a clear understanding of what will happen to the baby in case of donation, nor does it indicate that the practitioner will use an ultrasound to alter how he or she destroys the baby. Fetal tissue and blood does not match Nucatola’s description of what body parts Planned Parenthood clinics exchange for money. She clearly describes “hearts,” “lungs,” and heads (using a medical term for this last one).

“As the video and transcript show, Nucatola discusses using an ultrasound to change how she would crush and remove the baby in order to preserve organs an unnamed entity had requested. Second, it is unclear at best if Planned Parenthood is profiting off the organs Nucatola and the second whistleblower interviewee, Medical Directors Council President Mary Gatter, agree Planned Parenthood is exchanging for money. To prove Planned Parenthood isn’t profiting would require an extensive audit of their books, so again it’s unclear how Reason can know for sure. Further, the folks discussing this with Nucatola suggest ways their business can defray administrative costs by coming on site and self-shipping, over and above paying for children’s organs. It’s certainly worth investigating what money changed hands here.

via The Transom: July 22, 2015.

Mitch McConnell says We’re Not Going to Defund Planned Parenthood Yet

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Tree of Life

At some point, principle has to triumph. If we can’t win a battle over the selling of baby body parts, what can we win a battle over. Life is too important to trivialize this way. God will have something to say about our barbaric treatment of babies.

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly implied yesterday that he wouldn’t push to defund Planned Parenthood in the September appropriations negotiations. McConnell seemed to express fears that such a fight could backfire on public perception.”  Mitch McConnell: We’re Not Going to Defund Planned Parenthood Yet – Town Hall